漢 星雲紋銅鏡|Mirror with knobs and swirls
Unknown
2nd to 1st century BCE · Bronze with black patina · Asian Art
Song antiquarian catalogues refer to this décor pattern as “nipples.” Later collectors and scholars described it as a “star and cloud” patterns, but without either textual or archaeological evidence. A more plausible theory argues that the design evolved from the disintegration of an earlier pattern of interlaced dragons.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- 2nd to 1st century BCE
- Medium
- Bronze with black patina
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1917
